How do we define effective teaching? What is quality instruction? What is the impact on student learning? What impact does technology have on teaching and learning? Can resources improve teaching and learning? How do we approach the scholarship of teaching and learning?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Organizational literacy

With information flowing through the internet, and the uncounted numbers of information I have assembled over the years, I started wondering about social tagging. Granted, I have 168 unique tags on delicious (http://delicious.com/dpeter19) and they MEAN something to me, but can I organize them more? I have folders/files neatly stored on a computer hard drive, and if I labelled the folder correctly, I can find things. But, how can I have ONE mega-tagging taxonomy? This new system would be based on some hierarchy or structure of knowledge, rather than my structure of convenience.